I say: the authors of the Ṣaḥīḥ collections tolerated his tadlīs and still accepted his narrations. (1)
He died in Jumādā al-Ūlā, in the year 190 AH.
ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-ʿAlawī informed us; Abū al-Ḥasan al-Qaṭīʿī informed us; Abū Bakr ibn al-Zāghūnī informed us; Abū Naṣr al-Zaynabī informed us; Abū Ṭāhir al-Dhahabī informed us; Yaḥyā ibn Muḥammad narrated to us; al-Ḥasan ibn Dāwūd al-Munkadirī narrated to us; ʿUmar ibn ʿAlī al-Muqaddamī narrated to us; Ibn Isḥāq narrated to us; he said, “I heard Abū Saʿd al-Khaṭmī (2) say”—Ibn Ṣāʿid, that is Shuraḥbīl ibn Saʿd, added—“I heard Jābir say: ‘The Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, led me and Jabbār ibn Ṣakhr in prayer, placing the two of us behind him.’” (3) This chain is singular.
- al-Ashjaʿī, ʿUbayd Allāh ibn ʿUbayd al-Raḥmān* (Kh, M, T, S, Q)
Some said his father’s name was ʿAbd al-Raḥmān. A ḥāfiẓ, firmly reliable, an imam—Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Ashjaʿī, a Kufan who later settled in Baghdad.
He transmitted from Hishām ibn ʿUrwah, Muḥammad ibn ʿAmr ibn ʿAlqamah, Ismāʿīl ibn Abī Khālid, ʿAbd al-Malik ibn Saʿīd ibn Abjar, Mujammiʿ ibn Yaḥyā al-Anṣārī, Hārūn ibn ʿAntarah, Musāwir al-Warrāq, Mālik ibn Mighwal, Sufyān, Shuʿbah, and others.